Letter E

Our activities for the letter E week:

• Ears and eyes - listen to different sounds (you can get into high and low sounds, loud and soft sounds, play 2 sounds and ask your child if they were the same or different, etc.), look at things and talk about how we see with our eyes, use a blindfold to put on and see how hard it is to walk around in the dark, etc.  Just be creative with this one!
• Put googly eyes on a picture (one that has eyes, of course, or it might look silly :)
• Put silly glasses on your eyes!
• Eggs - go somewhere where you can get messy and bring a few eggs and a bowl.  Let your child play with the eggs and see how hard they have to push for them to crack.  Let them feel the inside of the egg and see the different parts.  Then cook some eggs (not the ones you played with!) and eat!
• Save the eggshells to make some crushed eggshell art.  Be sure to peel out that thin lining so that all you have is the hard shell part.  When the shell is dry, let your kid have fun crushing the eggshells on a piece of paper.  Put some glue on a piece of paper and sprinkle the pieces on.  When it's dry, you can paint them with watercolors.
• Watch a youtube video of some eggs hatching.
• Make this elephant craft: http://www.first-school.ws/activities/shapes/animals/elephantshapes.htm - you can discuss the shapes and have your child glue (we used tape) the pieces on a piece of paper to make an elephant.  But really, if you just search for elephant crafts on google, you find a ton more to do!  We just used this one because it was really easy. (picture above)
• Exercise!!